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Recipe For Rage
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Plot Summary of Recipe For Rage
"Twenty-three year old Sandy Samuels is fighting to stay alive. The dedicated, warm special education teacher is suffering from a emotional breakdown. Verbal messages from her deceased mother Sofia, plague her ability to function. Unsure whether she hit a pedestrian, Sandy stops driving her car. Paranoid about being hunted by the police, she imprisons herself in the bedroom. Convinced that she poisoned a student, she begins therapy. "
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Brain/Body disability? - mental illness

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - teacher
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
Small town? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of hetero sex - rape/molest (yeech!)
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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